| 3:1 | (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that* we should be called God’s children – and indeed* we are!* For this reason* the world does not know us: because it did not know him.* |
| 3:2 | Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be* has not yet been revealed. We* know that* whenever* it* is revealed* we will be like him, because* we will see him just as he is.* |
| 3:3 | And everyone who has this hope focused* on him purifies* himself, just as Jesus* is pure).* |
| 3:4 | Everyone who practices sin* also practices lawlessness;* indeed,* sin is lawlessness. |
| 3:5 | And you know that Jesus* was revealed to take away* sins, and in him there is no sin. |
| 3:6 | Everyone who resides* in him does not sin;* everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. |
| 3:7 | Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness* is righteous, just as Jesus* is righteous. |
| 3:8 | The one who practices sin is of the devil,* because the devil has been sinning* from the beginning. For this purpose* the Son of God was revealed: to destroy* the works of the devil. |
| 3:9 | Everyone who has been fathered* by God does not practice sin,* because* God’s* seed* resides in him, and thus* he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. |
| 3:10 | By this* the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian* – is not of God. |
| 3:11 | For* this is the gospel* message* that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,* |
| 3:12 | not like Cain* who was of the evil one and brutally* murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous. |
| 3:13 | Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters,* if the world hates you.* |
| 3:14 | We know that* we have crossed over* from death to life* because* we love our fellow Christians.* The one who does not love remains in death.* |
| 3:15 | Everyone who hates his fellow Christian* is a murderer,* and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing* in him. |
| 3:16 | We have come to know love by this:* that Jesus* laid down* his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. |
| 3:17 | But whoever has the world’s possessions* and sees his fellow Christian* in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God* reside* in such a person?* |
| 3:18 | Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.* |
| 3:19 | And by this* we will know that we are of the truth and will convince* our conscience* in his presence,* |
| 3:20 | that* if our conscience condemns* us, that* God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. |
| 3:21 | Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God, |
| 3:22 | and* whatever we ask we receive from him, because* we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him. |
| 3:23 | Now* this is his commandment:* that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave* us the commandment. |
| 3:24 | And the person who keeps his commandments resides* in God,* and God* in him. Now by this* we know that God* resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us. |
1 John 3 - NET Bible [draft]
